Women’s football in Switzerland: the pioneers
In 2025 Switzerland will host the Women’s European Football Championship. But women playing football in the Alpine nation are still facing many challenges.
A recent Swiss study has found that spectators have biased views of women’s football, with many assuming that men are better because of their physical strength. On top of this, with some people finding men’s games more attractive, women’s football matches tend to generate less money and the income disparity between female and male footballers remains enormous in Switzerland.
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In 1968, Trudy Streit, former DFCZ footballer, and her friends founded the first women’s football club in Switzerland. At the time it was regarded as a curiosity.
But 50 years later the FC Zurich Museum decided to put together an exhibition on the pioneers of Swiss women’s football. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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